RHEL6.5 provisioning without DHCP

[Ess, Brandon]

May I ask why you cannot have a DHCP server? As far as Im aware DHCP is required for PXEboot to work. The PXE client with get an IP packet with other information such as where to TFTP the rest pf the pxe files.

So in my environment, DHCP packets are received on our WAN gateway and then forwarded to the company's corporate DHCP servers. Since I do not have access to those DHCP servers and two DHCP servers on the same network does not work (sans proper VLANs) another solution needs to be developed; enter DHCPproxy and DNSmasq

DNSmasq/DHCPproxy will only respond to DHCP packets from configured MAC address.

I cannot remember off the top of my head what version but DHCPproxy is built into newer versions of dhcpd, and dnsmasq is a completely separate utility. The version of dhcpd shipped with RHEL6 does not support dhcpproxy, and therefore dnsmasq is required. Ubuntu 1404 and RHEL7 do support native dhcpproxy via dhcpd.

Once you have PXEboot configured, you will point the pxelinux.cfg files to the RHEL6 netboot images, the iso will be loaded, and install via your KS files.

https://wiki.debian.org/PXEBootInstall

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ProxyDHCP

Good luck :)

-Brandon

-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Steve Robson
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 9:17 AM
To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: RHEL6.5 provisioning without DHCP

A popular tool for configuring and automating the installation of Red Hat is a tool called "cobbler".  See http://www.cobblerd.org/

Good luck!
-Steve

kickstart-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
>     1. RHEL6.5 provisioning without DHCP (Frantisek Krecmer)
>
> Subject: RHEL6.5 provisioning without DHCP
> From: Frantisek Krecmer <f.krecmer at gmail.com>
> Date: 12/11/2014 11:59 AM
>
> To: "kickstart-list at redhat.com" <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have following scenario:
> - need to install very large number of physical servers
> - RHEL repository is on the network filer (url install, NFS install
> available)
> - there is no DHCP available (and it is not possible to have one -
> long
> story)
> - I know serial number and IP for each server

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